He reflects on how Frank Zappa helped him and Adrian Belew, ... Steve Vai on BEAT, being a virtuoso in his 60s – and the Fripp riff he just couldn’t master. Andrew Daly.

The guitarist's left hand was plagued by carpal tunnel as the Beat tour celebrating the group's 1980s music wound its way ...

Steve Vai said he nearly came off the road for good after touring with Frank Zappa – but his experience with David Lee Roth changed his mind in May 2024.

A persistent rumour at Berklee tells how Steve would skip classes, spending time in the school's library transcribing Zappa's works by ear. Steve mailed transcriptions of Zappa's guitar solos to him, ...

Calling Steve Vai restlessly creative is an understatement. It’s a personality trait he’s carried with him from when he was hired by the late Frank Zappa to start transcribing for him at the ...

It's interesting to consider, but one of Steve Vai's favorite albums growing up was by an artist that he'd later come to play with. That would be the legendary Frank Zappa .

Zappa referred to Vai as his stunt guitarist and the two performed together until 1982. “There was a riot at a show in Palermo, Italy in ‘82 and Frank stopped touring because of that,” Vai ...

Steve Vai will be at MGM Northfield Park Center Stage on April 13 for a co-headlining show with pal and ... engineer, how to just conduct yourself on stage. It was so much. He was Frank Zappa, ...

I recently spoke to Vai about the pair’s indelible musical relationship, his early career working for Frank Zappa and the importance of music theory to his art.

Vai, who has worked with the likes of Frank Zappa, Mary J. Blige, David Lee Roth and others, will play his famous triple-neck guitar at The Strand.

Steve Vai: Yeah, directly in the right place. Your mind is going to meander, we're sloppy thinkers, you can't figure out any of that stuff. But when you get a proper creative impulse, you know it.

So said Steve Vai to Rolling Stone in 2020, as he reflected on his friendship with Eddie. ... Vai and Frank Zappa onstage at the Palladium, New York City, October 31, 1981.